Due to the lack of a human teacher how did the old school seem to Margie?

Correct answer: More attractive

The governing idea is contrast between isolated mechanical schooling and shared human schooling. Margie’s lessons take place at home with a mechanical teacher, so learning feels solitary and lacks the companionship of classmates and the personal presence of a teacher. When she imagines the old school, where children studied together under a human teacher, that form of education appears more attractive to her. Thus option A is correct. Option B reverses her response, option C is inaccurate because old schools had children, and option D better describes her own machine-based arrangement rather than the old school.